surface是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 表面； 外表a. 表面的， 肤浅的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!if I had him here!just to take him to the brink coaxingly and pleasantly, holding him by the button-hole joking with him, and, with a sudden push, to send him splashing down!Drowning men come to the surface three times they say.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The skin on the surface of the body rose in bubbles of various sizes, and in places hung in patches.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole surface of the earth seemed changed melting and flowing under my eyes.
-- I mean that it had gone deeper and deeper into larger and ever larger underground factories, spending a still-increasing amount of its time therein, till, in the end !Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth?
-- "Again, the exclusive tendency of richer people due, no doubt, to the increasing refinement of their education, and the widening gulf between them and the rude violence of the poor is already leading to the closing, in their interest, of considerable portions of the surface of the land.
-- They still possessed the earth on sufferance: since the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable.
-- I hesitated, and then, as I looked round me, I saw that the dust was less abundant and its surface less even.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All at once there began to go a sort of bustle among the bulrushes; a wild duck flew up with a quack, another followed, and soon over the whole surface of the marsh a great cloud of birds hung screaming and circling in the air.
-- The sun had just set, the sea breeze was rustling and tumbling in the woods and ruffling the grey surface of the anchorage; the tide, too, was far out, and great tracts of sand lay uncovered; the air, after the heat of the day, chilled me through my jacket.
-- The latter stood in several places as much as a foot or a foot and a half above the surface of the sand.
-- The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.
-- 27 "Pieces of Eight"WING to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out over the water, and from my perch on the cross-trees I had nothing below me but the surface of the bay.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They saw nothing but a strong eddy about three cables' length distant, as if the surface had been violently agitated.
-- What passes in those remote depths what beings live, or can live, twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the waters what is the organisation of these animals, we can scarcely conjecture.
-- They were ever chatting, discussing, and calculating the various chances of a meeting, watching narrowly the vast surface of the ocean.
-- "If such an animal is in existence, if it inhabits the depths of the ocean, if it frequents the strata lying miles below the surface of the water, it must necessarily possess an organisation the strength of which would defy all comparison."
-- It follows, then, that at 320 feet this pressure equals that of 10 atmospheres, of 100 atmospheres at 3,200 feet, and of 1,000 atmospheres at 32,000 feet, that is, about 6 miles; which is equivalent to saying that if you could attain this depth in the ocean, each square three-eighths of an inch of the surface of your body would bear a pressure of 5,600 lb.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she got to the top, to see the old, velvety surface of the pond before her, she noticed a man on the bank, tinkering with a punt.
-- She seemed to catch her thoughts at length from off the surface of a maelstrom of chaotic black emotions and reactions, and Birkin was always filled with repulsion, she caught so infallibly, her will never failed her.
-- Everywhere were these noiseless ruddy creatures of fire drifting near the surface of the water, caught at by the rarest, scarce visible reflections.
-- In the distance, the steamer twanged and thrummed and washed with her faintly-splashing paddles, trailing her strings of coloured lights, and occasionally lighting up the whole scene luridly with an effusion of fireworks, Roman candles and sheafs of stars and other simple effects, illuminating the surface of the water, and showing the boats creeping round, low down.
-- The shouting and the noise continued, sounding horrid through the dusk, over the surface of the water.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, not to mention his clothes, which had seen three months' service in mire and dust, and his thick uncombed hair, the surface of his face and hands was dismally beclouded.
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